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PHRENIC HERNIA. 
Case 2. — Rupture of the Diaphragm supervening 
AN ATTACK OF INDIGESTION. 
Subject, a fine old chesnut horse, broken winded. In his 
early days, no doubt, he had been in much better hands than 
he was at the time of his death. He was the property of a 
party who frequented provincial fairs, with a vehicle in which 
were arranged numerous wooden horses, with which, for a 
small gratuity, he amused the juvenile equestrians. In this 
capacity the poor old horse had been engaged from the early 
morn of a long summer’s day until dark ; and business being 
unusually brisk, he had no time for his mid-day feed, but as 
a compensation he had a double allowance, consisting of half 
a peck of peas, placed before him*at night. These he had no 
sooner finished than he felt uneasy, and commenced rolling 
about. His owner supposing it to be his old complaint, for 
he was often attacked with colic, gave him his usual c< drops 
of comfort,” ale, gin, and pepper ; but this time even a 
second dose failed to give relief, therefore, about three o’clock 
in the morning, I was solicited to seethe animal, which I did. 
It w r as one of those cases in which there needed no hesitation 
in at once pronouncing a verdict of hopeless. I shall not 
trouble your readers with the treatment resorted to by me, 
further than to state that such means were employed as the 
urgencies of the case suggested ; and, as I did not see it until 
the symptoms were protracted, content myself by giving the 
marked ones present. The coat was saturated with per- 
spiration, the pupils dilated, the breath very offensive, and 
the visible mucous membranes very pale. When up he was 
constantly on the move ; but his favorite position was to lie 
on his back with his fore feet alternately beating his sternum, 
and so violently did he so, thatw-e were obliged to fetter them. 
He died exactly twelve hours from the attack. 
Post-mortem examination . — The stomach was in full posses- 
sion of the last night’s fatal supper, the peas ; and several feet 
of the small intestines were found occupying the thorax. 
The musular portion of diaphragm was very pale and thin. 
The lungs w T ere emphysematous. I have already said he w r as 
broken-winded. 
Case 3. — Rupture of the Diaphragm, probably 
long existing.— Cause, occult. 
A carriage horse, ten years old, the property of a clergy- 
man. The animal had experienced a very severe catarrhal 
